Gene Wilder’s The Woman in Red (KCOP...

Gene Wilder’s The Woman in Red (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.) is a sexy but overly broad and crass 1984 remake of Yves Robert’s infidelity farce “Pardon Mon Affaire,” with Kelly Le Brock as a stunning temptress and Stevie Wonder a sterling main-title balladeer.

Mel Brooks’ 1981 History of the World, Part 1 (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.), a parody of historical epics narrated by Orson Welles and ranging from prehistoric times through Roman orgies and the French Revolution marks the beginning of Brooks’ high-volume, low-laugh quotient cycle. Still, there are good moments in a sea of excess.

The Sting (KCOP Tuesday at 8 p.m.), that unalloyed 1973 delight, is a flawlessly created pure entertainment set in the 1930s. Robert Redford and Paul Newman are, respectively, an up-and-coming con man and a legendary big-time con man on the skids who zero in on New York racketeer Robert Shaw.

In the fresh, virulently funny and offbeat 1984 Repo Man (KTTV Wednesday at 8 p.m.), writer-director Alex Cox sets his contemporary comic portrait of the way we are (but might be happier forgetting) against the scabrous background of the automobile repossession business in Los Angeles. That icon of low-life, Harry Dean Stanton, plays an ace repossessor who becomes mentor to Emilio Estevez. A real collector’s item.

In Roman Polanski’s Frantic (CBS Saturday at 8 p.m.), an icy, elegant 1988 thriller about an American doctor (Harrison Ford, near-perfect) chasing his wife’s kidnapers through the deadlier byways of Paris, we can tell after 10 minutes that we’re in the hands of a superb craftsman--even though the movie finally doesn’t go far enough.

Producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, collaborators for three decades, have made an airy, delectable, virtually irresistible 1986 film, A Room With a View (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.), from E.M. Forster’s thoughtful 1908 romance. Helena Bonham Carter stars as a deceptively demure and proper flower of Edwardian England. With Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis, Simon Callow and Judi Dench.

Quartet (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.), a revered 1949 British film, features Somerset Maugham introducing four of his tales.